英语词汇chippy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

chippy. Most sources say chippy, first recorded in the late 1880s, comes from chip, “to chirp,” as a streetwalker might do when a prospective client walked by. But it’s hard to believe that prostitutes commonly chirped at men. More likely, this name for a whore derives from the chips prostitutes were paid with by clients in Mexican-American whorehouses (chippy houses) in the western United States. The customers purchased chips from the madam, paid the women with them and the women cashed them in for their percentage.

词汇	chippy
词源	chippy. Most sources say chippy, first recorded in the late 1880s, comes from chip, “to chirp,” as a streetwalker might do when a prospective client walked by. But it’s hard to believe that prostitutes commonly chirped at men. More likely, this name for a whore derives from the chips prostitutes were paid with by clients in Mexican-American whorehouses (chippy houses) in the western United States. The customers purchased chips from the madam, paid the women with them and the women cashed them in for their percentage.
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